Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Theater for Middle East Power Struggles

„Public Diplomacy“ nimmt einen zentralen Stellenwert in den Außenpolitiken autoritärer Staaten ein. Dieser GIGA Focus Nahost untersucht die Rolle echter und vermeintlicher nichtstaatlicher Akteure in den iranischen, saudischen und türkischen Public Diplomacy-Strategien gegenüber Afrika.

This article seeks to identify ways in which the foreign policy power hierarchy inside the Islamic Republic of Iran can be explained. It uses high-level diplomatic meetings as observable evidence in a novel analytical framework to identify the scope of competition and hierarchies in foreign policy decision-making processes. Results reveal that diplomatic activities of key foreign policy decision makers did not noticeably diverge.